Reflections
I graduated 45 years ago with about 220 other people from
Cumberland Valley High School in central Pennsylvania, just on the other side
of the river from Harrisburg. You
remember how at your 10th year reunion, they had a small "in memoriam" passage
in the back of the program guide, just enough to accommodate the names of the two
or three people who'd been unfortunate enough to have checked out since
graduation, usually by way of a grisly automobile accident. By the time you get to the 45th, that takes
up a page and a half.
I hadn't seen any of the people there in 25 years, and the
universal response when I told people I was a lawyer was, "I always knew you'd be a lawyer." That felt good. Well, yeah, I know it beats, "Gee, I always
figured you'd wind up as a Tier III Sex Offender." But it was more than that. This is what I've always wanted to do, and
people knew that from early on.
The trip takes about five hours, so I had lots of time to
think. One of the things I thought about
was this blog. My readership's down
about 25% in the last six months. A lot
of it, I think, has to do with me getting away from why I started doing
this. The original purpose of this was a
place where small firm and solo practitioners could drop by in the morning and
find something which would help them in their practice, and would be interesting
to read. I've gone a little overboard
with the analysis end of it. And it's
more boring. Sometimes when I go back
over my old stuff, I'll be pleased with a nice turn of the phrase, or my take
on a particular subject, like rowdy fans or
the benefits
criminals gain from wearing glasses, at least at trial. I don't see much of that anymore.
So I'm going to spend some time retooling here over the next
couple weeks. I'll keep some of the
things, like the weekly case update and the look at the 8th District opinions,
but I'm going to punch that up a bit, make it more down to earth and a little
more user-friendly. The other days I'm
going to take at something you might want to know about, or something you'd
enjoy reading about. And this is Wide
Web World; maybe jazz this place up a little as far as graphical content.
I'll be back with the normal stuff next Monday and
Tuesday. After that, we'll see where we go. And if you're a regular reader of this blog
and what to drop me an email to let me know your thoughts, I'd appreciate that,
too.
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